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Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali dies, aged 93

Former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Boutros passed away in a hospital in Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday, 16 February 2016 after being admitted for a broken pelvis. (PHOTO: COURTESY)

The U.N. Security Council has announced the death of former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

Boutros-Ghali, an Egyptian politician and diplomat, was the sixth secretary-general of the United Nations overall and he served from January 1992 to December 1996. Boutros-Ghali also goes down in history as the first UN Secretary General from Africa.

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